Here are some tutorials you can use if you’re one of those folks who enjoy sending out jobs for printing. This list includes basic desktop publishing tutorials and some simple effects for more interesting photos you can use when printing brochures or sending out catalog printing projects.

Landscape Photo Manipulation 
A detailed tut on how to merge two photos to create one fluid landscape.

 

 

Dreamy, Dramatic Photo Effects
If you want to make a photo pop, this is the way to do it. Using a Gaussian Blur, you slightly smudge part of a photo to make it dream-like. Note that this works best on photos with only two or three dominant colors.

 

Tips on Using Guides in InDesign
This video by Jeff Witchel at Layers magazine shows some popular and useful tips for working with guides. No matter what you’re printing, you need to follow guides for a clean design and to make sure no part of your design gets the old chopping block.
 

Brochure Printing in Microsoft Publisher  
Straight-forward, simple brochure creation from Microsoft. Good tut for the beginning designer. Includes layout and printing tips.

 

 

Trifold Brochure Design
This tut is nice because the panels of the brochure are clearly labeled so you can see how you need to arrange the panels for printing.

 

Setting Up InDesign Files for Print–Business Cards
Includes tips on prepress to ensure your printing goes smoothly. Also includes exporting to Adobe Acrobat as PDF/X-1a format.

 

How to Impose and Print Printer Spreads in Quark
For those who don’t yet have InDesign (or can’t afford it!), here’s a nice tut about how to set up your pages to print from Quark.

 
Printing Labels, Business Cards, Etc. to a Specific Sheet Position 
If you need to print an item in a certain spot on a piece of paper, it can be hard to navigate the business card, name tag or whatever to the correct position in Microsoft Publisher. This is a great tut to show you how to move things around so that they print correctly.